Witnesses Describe Last Night's Terrifying Shooting In A Tuscaloosa Bar

About 90 people were playing in a weekly pool tournament
at a bar on the University of Alabama's campus when a
gunman began shooting around 12:30 A.M.

Alabama Live is reporting that the suspected
shooter has turned himself in by walking into a store
and confessing
to two people, including a police officer.

Tuscaloosa Police Chief Steve Anderson
told AP that the gunman first shot the front window
then shot at people with a semi-automatic weapon as they fled the
bar. Anderson believes that the suspect was
targeting someone because he approached the Copper Top bar in
a "watchful and observant" manner.

"It was kind of loud from the music, but we heard the gunshot,
and no one really knew what to think," University of Alabama
senior Riley Dunn told
CNN. "About 20 seconds later, that's when he really started
firing them off. After that, everyone really scattered."

Eleven people were hit by gunfire and a total of 17 people were
taking to the hospital. Of the four people still hospitalized,
one is in extreme critical condition and three are in
serious condition.

EMT Ryan Chandler was at the bar next door when he heard the
shots and people began entering with wounds. Chandler
treated six people and said that some looked like they were hit
with buckshot while other wounds were more serious.

"One girl came [into the bar] limping, another guy came in and
fell right to the floor with a gunshot wound to the back,”
Chandler
told the Crimson White. “Outside Copper Top, there
were two or three girls with graze wounds. Then someone said that
someone was bleeding in the back of Copper Top. They had someone
in the back, and he had one or two shots in the leg…I spent 10 or
15 minutes treating him. [When I arrived] they had a tourniquet
on his leg…there was an ungodly amount of blood.”

Alabama senior Willie King
told the Crimson White that he was in the
back of the bar with the bleeding man and a bunch of people who
his after mistakenly thinking that they could exit through the
back:

“So we’re all lying down, everyone has blood on them, no one
knows if they were shot or not because of the adrenaline going
through all our veins,” King said. “We laid back there for I
don’t know how long, it felt like an hour but it was probably
like 10 or 15 minutes.”

Several bar patrons reportedly chased after the shooter.
AP reports that pools of blood are still visible
outside the bar and a trail of bloody footprints can be seen for
about two blocks.

Below the AP has Dunn's account of the shooting,
with footage of the suspect: